"Ten kilometers of armed cross-country training, 100 total obstacle courses plus push-ups and sit-ups, must be completed within the allotted time."

"The speed of disassembling and assembling firearms needs to be accelerated. Damn, are you bastards all eggless women? Even an eighty-year-old woman threads a needle much faster than you. And ten seconds later, the person who disassembles and assembles the firearm for a long time is not allowed to eat dinner today, and I will run a hundred laps and a hundred laps on the playground outside."

"What are you in? Do you think combat training is ballet? Cheap bastards slackers show your bravery and give the guy across from you a good taste of fisting. Let go and fight, don't worry about accidental injury. Remember, your current opponent is not a human, but a mutant creature that has never been seen in history. They feel pain, they are afraid, they are afraid. After the bullet is fired, the dagger is used, and the fist does not work and rushes to gnaw with the teeth. It's a time for endurance and courage, they eat people, and people eat them too————"

Scolding like this fills every auditory nerve every day, no, it should be at all times. The thunderous roar and roar never stopped. In just one week, the recruits already felt as if a whole year had passed, if not longer. They began to realize that words such as "there is no free lunch in the world" were not false, but the truth that happened to them.

To be able to eat and clothe warmly, you must pay a corresponding price.

There is no freedom in the training camp, and the sergeant instructor is the emperor who is high above.

These tall, steel-clad creatures are brutal and tyrannical devils and villains———— and they will never let you lie in bed for an extra second. A fixed weight-bearing cross-country distance that won't be shortened for someone because of an excuse like illness. If you stagger up to him and tell him: I have a cold. The sergeant will just smirk and wave his whip, slap you hard on the ass, and give you a heavy slap.

Pain and blood, the best remedy for laziness and timidity.

In the eyes of one thousand and six recruits, thirty-four sergeant instructors had synonyms such as "devil", "villain", "madman" and so on written on their heads.

The antagonistic mentality of hatred and hatred quickly spread in the training camp.

The recruits began to find ways to deliberately create trouble, wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble. In the eyes of the sergeants, this method was nothing more than pediatrics, and their method of dealing with it was crude and simple———— either arresting the person concerned and beating him severely, or making the scheming guys suffer a good time.

The war between sergeants and recruits was going on every day. The winner will always be the former without exception, and the latter will never gain anything except for various physical training sessions that are beaten to the point where his nose and face are swollen and the number of penalties is increased by hundreds of times.

It may sound like a fantasy, but it's all too real.

The sergeants are all hardeners, and in front of them, the recruits who have not been injected with the fortifier are just lambs to the slaughter

Of course, brutality and ferocity are not the eternal melody of training camp. In the midst of powerful accented rhythms, there are occasional soft, soothing transition tunes———— sergeants often take over the backpacks of less physical recruits during weight-bearing off-road; The sick recruits were fed with milk and eggs at every meal; Especially during combat training, although the sergeant has a hideous face, he is extremely measured, and there has never been any such thing as deliberate abuse or deliberate suppression.

From longing to extreme disgust, from resistance to acceptance, to adaptation, it takes time to see the warm and touching part through the cruel and indifferent appearance, and it takes time and even more intimate contact.

Recruits are lucky.

They don't have to worry about food, they don't have to go hungry, they don't have to worry about not seeing the sun tomorrow morning, and they will somehow become cooked meat in other people's mouths in the dark night.

They know that they will die———— the actual combat assessment of recruits and the casualty rate of front-line troops can speak for themselves, the army is not a charity, since they have come in, they must have the consciousness of fighting frantically at the cost of their lives.

But either way, it's an opportunity.

A chance to live.

Strong, dazzling sunlight envelops the entire city.

The ground was hot, and standing on the road, you could feel the uncomfortable burning heat through the soles of your shoes. Everywhere there was a glimmer of white light, walls, floors, telephone poles, billboards, everything was desperately reflecting the light, and these inanimate things seemed to have an unspeakable jealousy and hatred for living things. They stood silently, silently watching the insects and rats that were dying in the bright light and heat, or hiding in the shade corners and refused to come out, and smirked smirkedly.

Yue Zhennan carried a threaded steel bar with a sharp front end, and slowly moved forward with a dull gaze

This is the abandoned city of Chengdu, which, according to the map is indicated, belongs to the area near Qingyang Palace.

In a year, you can change a lot of things that are originally fixed.

The stagnant water in the gutters on the side of the street was black and smelly, and the surface was covered with all kinds of unknown small insects. The larvae and mosquito larvae use this place as a safe haven, and both are content with a moist and dark environment, where they wriggle between wet mud and dirty water, and there is no difference between beneficial insects and pests, just the relationship between the hunter and the food.

The city is full of rats. These guys, who were originally hiding underground, have become the real masters of the abandoned city. They can be found everywhere in corners, on the streets, in shop windows and on counters. The triangular black head no longer writhes all the time, and the mouth with its huge incisors seems to be chewing forever. Rubber wires, bones of the dead, car tires, clothes scattered in stores...... Everything in this world seems to be able to be used as a snack by mice, and God knows how their stomachs and intestines are compatible and adaptable? They breed in frightening numbers, never picking on taste and nutrition, and no matter whether they are dirty or clean, and in the time after the storm of the virus, they have produced huge populations that numb their scalps.

In addition to these, abandoned houses and cars are the eternal protagonists of the city.

And, of course, plants.

Weeds and vines crawl out of every corner and grow in every place covered with dirt. Even in the brick gaps of the city square, clumps of verdant grass stalks have sprang up. As for the green belt...... The shrubs and trees that were originally used to beautify the city have been tightly surrounded by wild grasses. At first glance, it looks like a beautiful star who should be glamorous on the stage is surrounded by a group of filaments, completely drowning in the deepest part of the chaos and denseness

At night, Yue Zhennan followed the team into a small building that seemed to be sturdy, and under the leadership of the leader, people blocked the entrance with various furniture in the room and erected an impenetrable wall.

After doing all this, Yue Zhennan seemed to be drained of all his strength, walked to the corner of the wall tiredly, curled up on the ground with his knees hugged, and soon let out a heavy snoring sound.

He was a young man of about twenty years, tall with curly black hair. The skin is a little dark, but it's healthy.

Except for Yue Zhennan himself, no one in the team knew that he was a "worker bee".

In addition to the "castle" in charge of Lao Song, several other small "beehives" that have set up strongholds, also according to the order issued by Su Hao, selected "worker bees" that meet the requirements from the area under their jurisdiction and gathered near the base city of Xincheng as refugees.

These "worker bees" come from different places of departure, and they build "bee colonies" of different sizes based on the same township or city, or even neighboring areas in accordance with human logical thinking. Among them, the number of "bee colonies" sent by the Kunming area is the largest, with more than 400 people. Yue Zhennan's "bee colony" has only more than 30 people, and they are from Yibin.

The reason for this combination is to not arouse suspicion among the military.

Yue Zhennan and the others had never contacted Su Hao, and Tang Zi's "Black Scythe" mercenary group never regarded them as recruits. Even if they meet occasionally, they are simply strangers to each other. Although they can feel the familiar energy fluctuations emanating from the other party's body and know their identity, in the eyes of others, there is no abnormality.

Even trained agents are immune to deviations when they first carry out a mission. Su Hao is not the head of the Hao consortium, nor does he have a large number of assets worthy of the military's attention. The reason why he was able to establish such a hierarchical and strict "bee colony" was entirely because of the mysterious black particles in his body. This substance, which comes from nowhere, is very similar to the special information hormone secreted by the "queen bee". The "worker bees" are completely under the control of biological instinct to produce a sense of absolute obedience, and they know what to do, and they do not need to be ordered or guided in detail.

Yue Zhennan was pretending to sleep, his right hand was stuck in his trouser pocket, gently stroking a vacuum hose.

When he arrived on the outskirts of New Chengdu Base City last month, Yue Zhennan was just an ordinary person with a slightly stronger physique

According to Su Hao's request, the "hives" of each stronghold have prepared some "worker bees" that have no strengthening ability. They have no outgoing breath and look no different from ordinary people. Because of the deliberate concealment of the strength and speed, at most it is slightly stronger than ordinary people, but it does not belong to the category of strengthening people.

Before coming to the new Chengdu base city, Yue Zhennan had never taken silver bones. In order to match his refugee status, he lives like a normal person in the refugee area outside the base city. According to the identity of the "swarm" to prepare him for the swarm, Yue Zhennan is an ordinary office worker. This is actually the trajectory of his life in peacetime. Even if the military sends someone to investigate deeply, they will only get the same identification information.

In order to survive, Yue Zhennan was forced to give the only thing of value to the gangsters outside the base city———— an ancestral gold ring.

He doesn't have any special skills like a mechanical repairman, which are valued by the wealthy consortium, nor does he have the strength to surpass ordinary people. Yue Zhennan's behavior is no different from that of ordinary people, catching rats and insects in the wilderness every day, digging for edible plants, and occasionally joining a hunting team, searching for living supplies on the outskirts of abandoned cities, and hunting lone mutated creatures.

During the time he was waiting outside the city, Yue Zhennan was beaten six times by gang members for different reasons. In retaliation, he took advantage of two of the other men who were often bullied to drop two of them. In order to escape for his life, Yue Zhennan ran from the south of the city to the north of the city, and took the initiative to join another powerful gangster group. In order to behave in line with his status as an outlaw, he flattered the gang leader and touted it to the fullest. After being recognized as a member of the group, Yue Zhennan also began to kill people and sell goods, trying to make ends meet with the harvest proceeds.

No one noticed that he was a "worker bee".

Brave and ruthless, coupled with an extremely vicious reputation, Yue Zhennan began to be favored by some hunting teams. As a member of the periphery, he followed the other hunters into the abandoned city four times, and although he was not able to get a complete silver bone and hedrons, he also obtained a few crumpled blue bills (Earth Dollar).

Every week, Yue Zhennan would wait outside the square outside the city to recruit new soldiers. He, like everyone else, has a flattering smile on his face, and uses all means to bribe the gang members who control the venue in order to get a chance to enter it. However, Yue Zhennan's luck was as bad as most people, he was never chosen, and every time he left in a state of loss and wandering.

Even an experienced Lao Spicy intelligence officer couldn't unearth Yue Zhennan's true identity from these clues.

He's just an ordinary refugee, that's all.

Last week, the secret liaison quietly handed over a vacuum hose to Yue Zhennan. At the same time, there was also a silver bone that was strong enough to reach the fifth stage.

Yue Zhennan catches mice in the wilderness every day. He used this time to secretly take Silver Bone in the dark where no one was looking. A few days later, he had become a true fifth-order enhancer.

Everything is very secretive, and no one notices.

Yesterday morning, the captain of a small team approached Yue Zhennan and invited him to participate in the next day's hunt.

This is actually the result of the activities of other "colony" members on the periphery.

One of them was well acquainted with the other hunting captains, and when they were drinking together, they deliberately brought up topics such as "bravery" to induce them to overlap their thinking skills with real-life characters. Naturally, there must be people who have worked with Yue Zhennan next to the wine table, and in front of topics of common interest, they can easily name a few brave men who know the Tao.

It's like a group of people have watched the same movie, and in addition to chatting about the film, in order to show that they know more than others, there will always be people mentioning the background of the film, the supporting role, the director, and so on. When I say that Tom's acting skills are first-class, you immediately refute that Spielberg is the real director...... In the midst of this upheaval, the observer will always hear several names that have been repeatedly debated.

It is under the premise of being set off by the scene and induced by consciousness that a captain who has never been in contact with Yue Zhennan will send out an invitation. Even if someone wants to find out the connection afterwards, there is no trace.

The night is getting deeper and deeper.

The hunters stayed in the halls of the small buildings, around the campfires, and cooked simple food with various utensils. There was little talk and little communication between the team members, except for two guards with firearms standing at the drape-draped window, looking through the gap with wary expressions on their faces.

Yue Zhennan gathered next to the ashes and cooked half of the cooked meat in his pocket for dinner. Although this food is not enough to fill the stomach, it can fill the stomach to some extent, so that it will not be too hungry.

Ordinary people did not have the ability to release their thinking consciousness, and no one in the entire hunting team noticed that Yue Zhennan had a fifth-order enhancement ability.

It was almost two o'clock in the morning, and the people who were staying in the room were awakened by a rapid and heavy tremor.

"Oh my God, there are so many. Quick, we've got to get out of here————"

One of the watchmen exclaimed in disbelief.

Through the gap in the edge of the curtain, he saw a group of bright red bloody corpses rushing across the road outside the small building, numbering in the hundreds.

Hunting parties are always faced with unforeseen surprises. It could be a soak of urine in the corner of someone's wall, or it could be a loud cough or conversation. God knows, what are the eyes, noses, and ears of those mutated creatures so sensitive? They can always look for clues left by humans and follow them.

Especially now, when humans have been fleeing from cities for more than a year, things like fresh feces, sweat, and phlegm are almost nowhere to be found. The slightest mistake will immediately invite murder.

Screams and roars rang out inside and outside the building at the same time, and people cried and cursed, trying to find a way to escape. However, no matter how you look at it, this is a place of death.

Compared to half a year ago, the evolution speed of the blood corpse has undoubtedly accelerated a lot. Their body size and appearance are about twice that of normal people, and the coordination of their hind limbs and forelimbs is more consistent. These infected mutated creatures parasitized by the virus have completely abandoned the fixed custom of human walking upright, their hands have grown to one meter eight or nine, and some even exceed two meters, the left and right shoulders protrude from thick and hard bone joints, the ten fingers are becoming more and more flexible, and the nails have evolved into sharp claws. Their limbs are incredibly long, and they are accustomed to running on all fours, and they can even reach speeds of 60 or 70 kilometers per hour in short distances.

Some of the blood corpses' skin was no longer so bright red, but turned a slightly sauce-colored gray. According to the classification criteria for mutant creatures in the future realm, they are no longer called "blood corpses", but are given the name "violent corpses".

These terrifying monsters possess unimaginable strength. They roared, slamming their fists and bodies against doors and windows. Whether it is a bloody corpse or a violent corpse, they all have more or less the wisdom that originally belonged to humans. They surrounded the small buildings, climbed up the drains, jumped into the windows of the second and third floors, and searched for new ways to hunt for food.

Suddenly, fierce and piercing gunfire erupted in the small building.

Yue Zhennan saw the opportunity when no one was paying attention, took out a vacuum hose containing a first-class genetic medicine from his trouser pocket, and bit it hard with his teeth. The moment his tongue touched the cool liquid, a panicked expression appeared on his face, and he followed the footsteps of most people and ran wildly towards the rooftop of the building.